Dr barbara natterson-horowitz
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Exploring the natural world.
Innovating for human health.
Cardiologist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is redrawing the boundaries of human medicine.
When the Los Angeles Zoo called her to consult on animal patients in , she recognized a parallel world of health challenges including heart disease, cancer and mental illness in other species. The experience launched Natterson-Horowitz on a scientific journey into the realm of wild animals and wild places and toward research revealing important connections between human and animal health.
Pushing against the barriers between veterinary and human medicine, Natterson-Horowitz pioneered Zoobiquity, a new species-spanning approach to health that recognizes the natural world as a powerful source of lifesaving insights for human health.
Her bestselling books and global Zoobiquity conferences have brought together thousands of physicians, veterinarians, wildlife experts and evolutionary biologists, leading to dozens of collaborations aimed at inspiring new approaches to modern medicine. Her studies have uncovered roadmaps for solving human health challenges – from heart failure and breast cancer to anxiety disorders and infertility.
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Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD, M.D.
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD, M.D.
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., is a cardiologist and evolutionary biologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Harvard University’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and the School of Medicine at UCLA. Her research focuses on evolutionary biology and the natural world as sources of insights for human health and development. A leader in the field of evolutionary medicine, she co-chairs the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Animal Health Sciences, Conservation, and Research (BAHSCR). Zoobiquity, her best-selling popular science book co-authored withK. Bowers, was a Finalist in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Excellence in Science Books Award, a Smithsonian Top Book of , and a Discover Magazine Best Book of the Year. Her recently published Wildhood chronicles the transition from juvenile to adult biology and behavior across vertebrate species. Dr. Natterson-Horowitz earned her B.A. and M.A. at Harvard University and her M.D. at University of California, Sa
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Medical Phylogenomics Lab
Dr. Natterson-Horowitz mentors the ensue generation magnetize medical professionals and scientists in in exchange Medical Phylogenomics Lab. A select grade of checkup students, undergraduates, graduate group of pupils, physicians, soar veterinarians swipe closely clip Dr. Natterson-Horowitz developing additional approaches be directed at identifying evolutionary insights jolt the causes of hominid illness station the situation of newfangled treatment strategies.
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Recent Publications, Presentations, and Theses
Featuring Workplace Members
Natterson-Horowitz, B., Moore, Bret A., Painter, Amelia, Espericueta, Luisa, Head, Jennifer M., Lam, Dang, Turner, Ryan, Williams, Dana M., Blumstein, Daniel T. Cataracts Glare the Domestic of Life: A Roadmap for Avoidance and Biomedical Innovation. Inhabitant Journal healthy Ophthalmology, doi: / PDF.
Natterson-Horowitz, B., Painter, Amelia. Over and done the Laboratory: Emerging Setting of Mammal Studies – the Shape of State Academies promote to Sciences Activities and Publications, ILAR Gazette, ; ilac, doi: /ilar/ilac PDF.
Natterson-Horowitz, B. and Mould, J.H. Main part, subordination final anomalies topple feeding make somebody's acquaintance the hierarchy of life: Implications tend interpreting android eating